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To truly understand the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and help combat genocide ideology, we compiled a selection of books that document the events, testimonies, and aftermath of one of the ...
Following the bloody ethnic conflict between the Tutsi and Hutu, the government imposed a moratorium on the teaching of Rwandan history. Jeanne Baron reports even as the ban is lifted, controversy ...
Some of this historical misunderstanding was used to incite the Hutu population to join the slaughter in 1994—for example, appeals to send the Tutsi "back to Ethiopia" by throwing their bodies ...
Also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, this barbaric act refers to the mass slaughter of an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 Rwandans in an 100 day period between April and July 1994.
Nkaka, a professor at the University of Rwanda, has spent 30 years analysing the history of racism and racial policies in his country from the early 20th century up to the Tutsi genocide; his 2013 ...
Tutsi and Hutu intermarried, worked together, got on well. And it was true that, after the genocide and the years of civil war that coincided with and followed it, everyone was afraid of each other.
“I think it’s important that we make people aware of this history so that we don’t forget it, and so it doesn’t happen again,” he said. From April 7 to July 19 of 1994—a span of just 100 days—up to ...
The renegade general Laurent Nkunda whose forces sparked an international crisis late last year in Eastern Congo was last night facing extradition to Congo and a possible war crimes trial.
Ohio State will host Kwibuka, an event commemorating the 31st anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Saturday. This Kwibuka is one of 34 events across the United States ...